About this limited edition photograph:

The light painted photograph “Enter the Water Hole” was created at Dunning’s Spring Park in Decorah, Iowa.

To create this light painted photograph I placed my Canon T3i camera on a tripod and I used a long exposure of 502 seconds. I used a powerful spotlight and three different colored gel filters to paint light and color onto the trees, foliage and water. The circle and sparks were created by standing on the waterfall and spinning a lit fountain firework. This sprayed sparks in a circular pattern and added color to the scene. The sparks were bright enough to illuminate my face, hands and jeans as I stood there spinning the firework. This was a valuable lesson in wearing all black from head to toe when light painting to prevent myself from appearing in my photographs. 

This photograph came off my camera as-is, and involved zero post-processing or Photoshop.

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